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Electronic Flora of South Australia Genus Fact Sheet
Phylum Phaeophyta – Order Ectocarpales
Thallus in loose, much branched tufts, filaments uniseriate, attached by rhizoids from lower filaments; phaeophycean hairs present. Growth diffuse. Cells generally short, with several elongate, usually narrow, phaeoplasts often traversing the length of the cell and slightly spiralling, each with several projecting pyrenoids.
Reproduction: Reproduction by sessile or pedicellate plurilocular sporangia and by unilocular meiosporangia.
Type species: K. criniger (Kuckuck) Hamel [= K. spinosa (Kützing) Kuckuck 1958: 172]. A small genus of three species (Hollenberg 1971, p. 14), usually rare.
References:
HAMEL, G. (1939b). Phéophycées de France. Fasc. V, pp. 337–432, i-xlvii. (Paris.)
HOLLENBERG, G.J. (1971). Phycological notes. V. New species of marine algae from California. Phycologia 10, 11–16.
KUCKUCK, P. (1958). Herausgegeben von P. Kornmann. Ectocarpaceen-Studien V. Kuckuckia, Feldmannia. Helgol. wiss. Meeresunters. 6, 171–192.
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part II complete list of references.
Publication:
Womersley, H.B.S. (14 December, 1987)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Part II
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